Aids in Africa
Title: Aids in Africa
Category: /Recreation & Sports/Health Care
Details: Words: 2284 | Pages: 8 (approximately 235 words/page)
Aids in Africa
Category: /Recreation & Sports/Health Care
Details: Words: 2284 | Pages: 8 (approximately 235 words/page)
Sub-Saharan Africa is made up of about ten percent of the world's population. In 2001, two-thirds of the 40 million people living with HIV resided in this region (Hearing 2). Only in Sub-Saharan Africa is this epidemic not concentrated to certain risk groups. The HIV virus is indiscriminate to all of the people living there with almost the same number of women affected as men (De Cock Mbori-Ngacha, Marum). With this epidemic happening to one particular region, one
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